Integration with vBulletin - Bad Behavior Integration

This is a simple integration of the Bad Behavior Script. Bad Behavior is a PHP-based solution for blocking link spam and the robots which deliver it. Bad Behavior complements other link spam solutions by acting as a gatekeeper, preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place. This keeps your site?s load down, makes your site logs cleaner, and can help prevent denial of service conditions caused by spammers.

I use this in conjunction with the Project Honeypot addon and the vBStopForumSpam addon. The three ought to be considered a layered defense at reducing spam and other unwanted traffic to your site that simply consumes resources.

*NOTE: The Project Honeypot addon has now added Bad Behavior implementation, which makes this implementation superfluous if you are using that plugin. Do not install if you have the latest version of the Project Honeypot.

I don't want to take credit for implementation as the idea originated with this thread

This is a simple implementation of the script and it will work but it will not provide any logging. I'll leave it to others who know more about how to improve this to enable logging.

Installation instructions:

1. Extract the contents of the zip file and upload the contents of the upload folder to your forum root. (Note: Latest stable version of bad behaviour can always be found here
2. Install Product.

Updates:
01/21/2010: Created Product file in lieu of plugin code to make it easier to install/uninstall.
01/22/2010: Added Bad Behaviour files for convenience.
01/24/2010: Simplified installation and included the php code within the plugin for the generic implementation of Bad Behavior per simonhind's suggestion below.
01/09/2011: Updated BadBeheavior.zip and included bad-behaviour files to 2.0.39
Added BadBehavior2.1.8.zip to include 2.1.8 developmental version

[Boofo]

Is this mod still being updated or worked on? I was not impressed with the honeypot mod because of what was going on it that thread.

[Alfa1]

Please update this to work with bad bahavior 2.1.8. BB 2.0.x blocks bing spiders and misses important bots.

[Lee G]

Thanks for pointing me towards this Alfa1

From what I read on their website, version 2.0.39 has the bing spider ips in it.

You can also whitelist ips of the bots you want to let through.

In the directory, there is a file called whitelist.inc
Add the ips or ip ranges in that file.

I have been having a play with this today and added some other stuff I want denied and its having a great effect on killing junk and not one dos attack today

I love this add on :up:

[SemperFideles]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Please update this to work with bad bahavior 2.1.8. BB 2.0.x blocks bing spiders and misses important bots.

It's developmental but I've uploaded an implementation of this and am testing on my own site. Let me know what you think.

[Alfa1]

Does this work with vb3.8.6 as well? My main board is running that.
I will install it on my vb4 boards.

[SemperFideles]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Does this work with vb3.8.6 as well? My main board is running that.
I will install it on my vb4 boards.

I don't see why it would not. It's sort of version agnostic. The only thing this does is implement the generic Bad Behavior script. The "plugin" is essentially the PHP script from the generic bad behavior script and it is the same effect as calling the php script and all the include files that come with it.

[Alfa1]

I'm encountering this on vb 3.8.6:

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /private_html/forum/includes/functions.php(5737) : eval()'d code on line 85

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array in /private_html/forum/includes/functions.php(5737) : eval()'d code on line 85

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /private_html/forum/includes/functions.php(5737) : eval()'d code:85) in /private_html/forum/includes/bad-behavior/screener.inc.php on line 8

[SemperFideles]

I can think of a couple of things:

1. Did you upload the files in the new uploads folder in the zip download?
2. I was wrong that it worked with vb 3.x.

Sorry I can't help you more than that. My "Not Supported" notice on this gives you the disclaimer that I have it working for me and can offer a bit of help now and again but I can't promise it will work given the variety of ways people have their boards configured or install things. This was my first "product" addon and I built it by copying the xml format of other products. That xml format may be specific to 4.x fora.

[Palehorse74480]

You say you use this with vBStopForumSpam, will it work with the glowhost spam o matic? Its the same thing with a few improvements.

I know they both run on the same forum, what I am asking is does this somehow integrate into it?

Is there a way of seeing a log of what its doing?

[SemperFideles]

I was using the Spam thing a while back but if you see that forum I disabled everything but the Honeypot plugin. I can see a lot of Honeypot blocking from the Honeypot site. Bad Behavior is simply another part of keeping bots from clogging up my site.